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Patented Oct. 26, 1954 em OFFICE PRODUCTION CHART Jasper Willsea, Webster, N. Y.

Application October 25, 1949, Serial No. 123,377

2 Claims. 1

In most any shop or office, it is necessary to keep records and for a lot of purposes book records alone are not sufficient. It is desirable to have records of work that is done from day to day,and also records or reminders of what must be done in days or weeks or even months in advance.

I have invented an apparatus by which such current and prospective records may be kept so that at all times they are spread out and can be viewed at a glance so that if the record is properly kept, nothing will be overlooked and everything will be done on time.

In this particular case, the apparatus has been used for the purpose of keeping records current and prospective in a machine shop where production is going forward day by day and week by week etc, but the same apparatus can be used for keeping records in many different kinds of businesses and in professional work.

For this purpose, I have provided an apparatus that has two platens of substantial equal width.

One of these platens is a narrow or short platen and is placed at the top of the apparatus and the other platen is a long platen with a short open space between the two platens.

On the narrow platen I provide space for suitable headings that are appropriate to the particular kinds of work to be done or business to be transacted, and these may be regarded as fixed or permanent and need not be changed from day to day. The other platen is used to support a web of paper which can travel over it and on which entries can be made. Columns can be ruled on this web of paper or the web can be left blank in this respect, in which case the columns will be ruled on the platen under the paper or on a stationary sheet carried on that platen. In the latter case, the web of paper will preferably be transparent, such as tracing paper, etc.

On the back of the platen is held two rollers. One is the supply roller from which the paper is drawn before it passes up over the platen and the other is the receiving roll which receives the paper after it has passed up over the platen.

The platen is suitably supported so that the headings and the columns are plainly visible and the columns are accessible for the purpose of making these entries.

It will be understood that in any kind of a shop or ofiice etc., orders are received from time to time, which orders cannot be filled on the day that they are received but must go through varied processes, steps being taken from time to time in carrying out the order, which steps are interspersed with delays that are more or less voluntary or involuntary according to the circumstances.

These results and other objects of the invention will be illustrated in the drawings, described in the specification and pointed out in the claims at the end thereof.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the apparatus showing the two platens with the web of paper in place thereon.

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the apparatus with the supply roll and the receiving roll in place thereon.

Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the apparatus minus the rolls and web of paper and with the brackets which hold the supply roll and the receiving roll shown in active position in full lines and shown in shipping position in dotted lines.

Fig. 4 is an end elevation of the apparatus suspended from the wall for use, with the web of paper in place.

Fig. 5 is an end elevation of the apparatus as it would appear set up on its own easel either on the table or on the floor etc., the web of paper being omitted.

Fig. 6 is a detail view of a portion of the narrow platen and the wide or long platen, showing the headings on the narrow platen and the columns on the wide or long platen.

Fig. 7 is a detail view of a portion of one of the wall hinges shown at the top of Fig. 4.

In the drawings like reference numerals indicate like parts.

In the drawings reference numeral I indicates the short platen at the top of the apparatus and 2 indicates the long platen that is hinged to it, the hinges being indicated at 3 and 4. To the narrow platen are fastened the upright supports 5 and 6, which are used when the long platen is supported as an easel when the assembly rests on a table. To the bottom of the long platen are fastened short blocks. The easel feet or base members i and 8 are connected to these blocks by the hinges 9 and Hi.

The loose ends of these base members i and 8 as shown in Fig. 5 are connected to the lower ends of the upright members 5 and 6 by the hooks ii and the studs l2. When the apparatus is folded up, the base members I and 8 are placed in the position shown in Fig. 4 and the hooks ll engage with the studs [3.

On the back of the long platen two brackets I 4 and it are connected by the hinges I 6, I6. These brackets are shown in full lines in active position in Fig. 3 at right angles to the platen and can be turned to the dotted line position shown in Fig. 3 when the apparatus is packed for ship ment. The brackets It and i5 are alike.

To hold the brackets 14 and iii in active position a strut I1 is provided hinged at It and Hi to the back of the long platen. This strut is shown in Fig. 3 in active position in full lines engaged with the brackets and in idle position in dotted lines. This strut is provided with two notches 20 and 2! by which it can engage the brackets l4 and i5 and hold them in active position.

Each of the brackets is provided with a lower circular recess 22 and an upper circular recess 23. From each circular recess 22 a slot 25 opens downwardly and from each circular recess 23 a slot 25 opens upwardly. In the circular recesses 22 is held a supply roll 26 and from it, the web of paper 2'? is fed down through the slots 24 around to the lower end of the long platen 2 and up over the long platen and through the slot 28 between the two platens and then down through the slots 25 on to the receiving roll 29.

On the upper narrow platen is placed a series of indexes, which can be extended to any number. These indexes can be on the platen or on a sheet of paper 30 that is fastened to the platen. These indexes will vary according to any need to which this apparatus is put. A sample of some of these indexes as used in one plant would read as follows:

1. Instructions 38. 24 vert. turn 2. Drawings 39. 42 vert. turn 3. Patterns 40. 48 vert. turn 4. Castings, forgings 41. '72 vert. turn 5. Stock 42. Bench 6. Unit parts 43. Assemble 7. Subcontract 44. Ship Either on the long platen itself or on a sheet of paper 3 I, attached thereto is ruled up and down dotted lines which divide the sheet of paper into columns corresponding in number to the number of headings or indexes on the short platen. These columns are indicated at 32, 32 etc. in Fig. 6. Cross lines 33, 33 are provided, which cut the vertical columns 32 into spaces that represent days. The space in each column for each day can be subdivided into spaces that represent hours or any other units. Five of these horizontal spaces are shown in Fig. 6, which represent the work days in one week, the boundary line for the week is indicated at 34.

The boundaries for each week can be further fixed by elastic bands 35, 35, 31, etc. The ends of these elastic bands are held on the opposite edges or the long platen by angle clips 38, 3B. The paper web 27 passes up under these elastic bands and by them the paper web is held in close contact with the long platen. The calendar days and weeks can be marked on the paper web in any suitable way to indicate the consecutive weeks in which the paper web is divided to receive entries as they are made from week to week.

In Fig. 7 I have shown a sample of the openend-pin hinge that is used when the apparatus is hung on the wall. In this case the male members it) are fastened to the wall and the female members All are fastened to the upright members 5 and 6. The two parts of each hinge are engaged with each other by putting the female member in line with the male member and moving the assembly to the right. As all writing is done from left to right, the tendency is to hold the hinged members together and not pull them apart.

In operation the apparatus is used as' follows: The paper is drawn from the supply roll 26 down under the long platen 2 and up over the long platen and the edge of the web is then passed throu h the slot between the two platens l and 2 and is then drawn down into contact with the receiving roll 29.

With the blank web in this position, the web will remain stationary for a week and being transparent will be divided into days and weeks by the horizontal cross lines on the platen 2 and will be divided into columns by the up and down dotted lines on the platen 2 under the indexes from left to right.

This will provide a definite space for each and every individual entry for each and every operation on each and all the jobs for three weeks so that the lay out or assignments for all the work for that future time can be seen at a glance and the various operations on the various jobs can be seen at a glance properly coordinated.

It will be understood that each job or piece of work is indicated by the number or character and this number or character will be placed in the column under the appropriate heading and on and in the horizontal position which represents the time at which work is to be started on that particular job.

Each job will have to go through a series of operations and one operation will be scheduled in this way under one heading for a particular time and the next operation will be scheduled under another heading for a later time.

In this way the work can be planned ahead.

When the operations for a week have been completed, then the paper web is drawn up so that the second week now becomes the first week or the week at the head of the second platen and furtherentries can be made with the web in this position as above described.

For every succeeding week, the web of paper is drawn up so that the section of the sheet which represented the second week is moved into the top position which is normally used for the first week.

It will be understood that while the long platen will ordinarily be long enough to take care of the entries for three weeks, the platen can be made as much longer as might be desired in which case it will take care of more weeks.

I claim:

1. In a recording device the combination of a wide and short platen at the top, a wide and long platen below the short platen and spaced therefrom and hinged thereto, means on the back of the long platen to support a supply roll and a receiving roll of paper, two brackets hinged on the back of the long platen and having openings therein adapted to receive and support a supply roll of paper intermediate the ends thereof and a receiving roll, said brackets normally standing at right angles to the back of the platen and being adapted to be folded outwardly against the back of the platen, said short platen being adapted to have a plurality of short legends marked there on, and said long platen being marked with long lines extending up and down the platen to divide said platen into spaces corresponding with each legend, and being provided with uniformly spaced bands extending across the platen 2. In a recording device the combination of a wide and short platen at the top, a wide and long platen below the short platen and spaced therefrom and hinged thereto, means on the back of the long platen to support a supply roll and a receiving roll of paper, two brackets hinged on the back of the long platen and having openings therein adapted to receive a supply roll and a receiving roll, said brackets normally standing at right angles to the back of the platen and being adapted to be folded outwardly against the back of the platen, means adapted to engage the brackets and positively hold them at right angles to the back of the long platen, said short platen being adapted to have a plurality of short legends marked thereon, and said long platen being marked with long lines extending up and down the platen to divide said platen into spaces corresponding with each legend, and. being provided with uniformly spaced bands extending across the platen.

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